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Tillandsia diguetii Mez & Rol.-Goss.; Mez, Repert. Sp
Nov. 14: 250. 1916.
Plant stemless, 7-8 cm. high; leaves many in a dense bulbous rosette, less than 1 dm. long, densely and coarsely subspreading-canous-lepidote; sheaths inflated, forming an ellipsoid pseudobulb; blades recurved and contorted, long-acuminate, flat, 1 cm. wide at the base, rigid; scape none; inflorescence sessile in the center of the leaf-rosette, compound, densely capitate, of 5 spikes; primarj' bracts foliaceous, much exceeding the axillary spikes but exposing them because of the reflexed blades; spikes strict, sessile, elliptic in outline, acute, densely 2-flowered or 3-flowered, 3 cm. long; floral bracts 2 cm. long, exceeding the sepals, barely imbricate, sharply carinate, slightly incurved toward the apex, coriaceous, slightly ner^'ed, lepidote; flowers sessile; sepals obtuse, coriaceous, becoming membranaceous toward the apex, lepidote, the posterior ones connate for 3—4 mm.
Type LOCAUTi'; "Mexico occidentalis, prope Manzanillo"; described from cultivation. Distribution: Known only from the type collection.
- bibliographic citation
- Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Tillandsia diguetii: Brief Summary
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Tillandsia diguetii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is endemic to Mexico.
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